mixing rigged walking with imported animation.

Unity Engine
1

I have a fully rigged character I bought from 3DRT.com fbx format with lots of animation I would like to use (2,500 frames 50+ clips), but it is sort of skating over surfaces instead of walking properly in parts of the animations.

I would like to keep the upper body movement and script the legs and feet.I know I can find out how to script legs from the birds in the Island demo. I am wondering is it possible/reasonable to try and combine (blend?) scripting the legs and imported animation? If it is I don’t mind spending hours tweeking the script and blend settings( :smile: should be fun), I mainly wondering if this is the right way to approach the problem.

here is an example if your curious
http://www.ryuuguu.com/unity/tttdz.html

Cheers,
Grant

2

The webplayer isn’t working for me. Did you accidently build it with a beta version of Unity?

3

Yeah I probably did.
[edit]

Ok uploaded with 2.0 should be ok now.

Cheers,
Grant

4

Try this script:
function Start ()
{
// Add a duplicate shoot animation which we set up to only animate the upper body
// We use this animation when the character is running.
// By using mixing for this we dont need to make a seperate running-shoot animation
animation.AddClip(animation[“shoot”].clip, “shootUpperBody”);
animation[“shootUpperBody”].AddMixingTransform(transform.Find(“gun”));
animation[“shootUpperBody”].AddMixingTransform(transform.Find(“roothandle/spine1”));

// Set all animations to loop
animation.wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;

// Except our action animations, Dont loop those
animation[“jump”].wrapMode = WrapMode.Clamp;
animation[“shoot”].wrapMode = WrapMode.Clamp;
animation[“shootUpperBody”].wrapMode = WrapMode.Clamp;

// Put idle and run in a lower layer. They will only animate if our action animations are not playing
animation[“idle”].layer = -1;
animation[“run”].layer = -1;

animation.Stop();
}

function Update () {
// Play either the run or idle animation
if (Mathf.Abs(Input.GetAxis(“Vertical”)) > 0.1)
{
animation.CrossFade(“run”);
// Play animation backwards when running backwards
animation[“run”].speed = Mathf.Sign(Input.GetAxis(“Vertical”));
}
else
animation.CrossFade(“idle”);

// Play the cross fade animation
if (Input.GetButtonDown (“Jump”))
{
animation.CrossFade(“jump”, 0.3);
}

// Play the shoot animation
if (Input.GetButtonDown (“Fire1”))
{
// We are running so play it only on the upper body
if (animation[“run”].weight > 0.5)
animation.CrossFadeQueued(“shootUpperBody”, 0.3, QueueMode.PlayNow);
// We are in idle so play it on the fully body
else
animation.CrossFadeQueued(“shoot”, 0.3, QueueMode.PlayNow);
}
}
It’s for the Soldier in the character animation project. If you run and turn left
or right, the character leans in the correct direction.

5

AweSome I’ll try combining that with the Heron walking script from Island demo.

Thanks,
Grant